Next Animation Studio
Explainer: Simultaneous heat waves in Arctic and Antarctic
Earth's poles have been experiencing major heat waves simultaneously, alarming climate scientists.
Healthcare Triage
It Turns Out, Medicare IS Socialized Medicine.
Florida Governor Rick Scott tries to scare voters by claiming that Democrats are going to undertake socialist experiments with Medicare, which is in itself a socialized medicine program. Also, a surprising entrant into the opioid...
ACDC Leadership
The Shut Down Rule- Old Version
My 60 second explanation of the shut down rule. When the price falls below AVC a firm should shut down and produce nothing. It is better for them to take their fixed costs as a loss then to continue to produce.
MarketWatch
How the election can affect your investments
Historically, election season leads to a volatile market. Here's what that means for your investments.
Curated Video
C++ Programming By Example - Coding a Virtual Die – Generating Random Numbers
How do you generate random numbers in C++? • Introduce cppreference for C++ documentation • Understand probability distributions and which one is appropriate for a die • Use the classes available in the C++ standard template library to...
Curated Video
Introduction to Average Rate of Return in Investment Appraisal
This video explains the concept of Average Rate of Return (ARR) and how it is used in investment appraisal. The video uses a bank as an example to illustrate how interest can generate a fixed percentage return annually. It also shows how...
Healthcare Triage
Penis Size and Suicide: Two Unrelated Stories on Healthcare Triage News
Penis size and Suicide. Not two topics that normally go together. This is Healthcare Triage News. How big is the average penis?
Healthcare Triage
Overtreating Kids, and the Shocking Truth About Alcohol in the US: Healthcare Triage News
Some kids are getting too many antibiotics, and some Americans are drinking WAY too much
Flipping Physics
Calculating Average Drag Force on an Accelerating Car using an Integral
A vehicle uniformly accelerates from rest to 3.0 x 10^1 km/hr in 9.25 seconds and 42 meters. Determine the average drag force acting on the vehicle.
TLDR News
Why is American Life Expectancy Falling? - TLDR News
The US has a major mortality issue, with the country's life expectancy actually falling in recent years. So in this video, we explain the issues with the American system and why people pay so much for some of the lowest life expectancies...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Diane Ravitch - Reign of Error
Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of education. Diane Ravitch’s Blog is dianeravitch.net and has received more that 17 million hits in 30 months. From 1991 to 1993, she was Assistant...
Flipping Physics
Example Problem: Finding Average Speed for Pole Position – Not as easy as you may think
This video is an example problem that walks through finding the average speed for the last 2 laps of the 4 lap qualifier for the Indianapolis 500 assuming an average speed for the first 2 laps. It is actually more difficult than it...
Next Animation Studio
A giant thruster could be used to shift the Earth’s orbit as changes to the sun’s energy output increases
In around a billion years, increases in the sun’s energy output will ensure oxygen levels on Earth drop to levels that cannot sustain complex life, so we should build a giant thruster to shift the planet’s orbit.
TLDR News
10 Years Later: Has Cannabis Legalisation Worked? Crime, Health & Tax After Weed - TLDR News
It's been about 10 years since cannabis was legalized in Washington and Colorado, so we want to review how it's been going... In this video we take a look at how legalizing cannabis impacted health, tax rates, and crime in the states...
Curated Video
What Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
The average carbon footprint of a person in the US is 16.5 tons - TONS. So, what can you actually do decrease this number and make a meaningful difference?
Healthcare Triage
The 5 Second Rule: It's Still Not a Thing.
We covered the Five Second Rule a couple years ago. And, just a few weeks ago, colleagues at the New York Times (and many other news sources) wrote about a new study debunking the five second rule. This was not the first such study to...
Curated Video
Design a computer system using tree search and reinforcement learning algorithms : Control – Building a Very Simple Epsilon-Greedy Policy
From the section: Model-Free Prediction and Control With Monte Carlo (MC). In this section, we will learn one of two improvements on DP – Monte Carlo, a method which does not require a model of the environment. We talk about a new...
Healthcare Triage
Healthcare in England
We've done the US, Canada, and France. None of them are really socialized healthcare systems. To get at that, we need to go look at a system like that of the UK. More specifically, we're going to talk about England's National Health...
Curated Video
Mastering Quantitative Skills for Economics
The video discusses the essential quantitative skills that modern-day economists should possess to successfully handle and interpret data and statistics related to economies, trade figures, and budget figures. The video goes over various...
ACDC Leadership
Short-Run Cost Curves (Part 2)- Micro Topic 3.2
In this video I explain how to draw and analyze the cost curves. Most teacher sad professors focus on the per unit cost curves. That included marginal cost, average total cost, average variable costs, and the average fixed cost. Each...
Healthcare Triage
Life Expectancy and the United States' Inequality Problem
Healthcare Triage often notes that lots of health metrics are improving in the US. But that is not the case with life expectancy. Life span is decreasing, and the losses are not equally distributed. The lives of the poor are getting...
The Wall Street Journal
Analyzing Diversity On Boards
With companies under pressure to have more diverse boards of directors, WSJ’s ESG research team analyzed board gender, race and ethnicity among S&P 500 companies. WSJ’s Senior Data Scientist, Guadalupe Ruiz, presents the research in this...
Curated Video
Using Graphs to Persuade: Measures of Center and Variability
In this video, the teacher explains how to use graphs to persuade parents that a bad test grade in math doesn't reflect overall performance. By analyzing measures of center and variability, such as the median, mode, mean, and MAD, the...
Curated Video
Measuring Business Efficiency with Inventory Turnover and Receivable/Payable Days
This video explains the concept of efficiency in business operations and three key formulae to measure it: inventory turnover, receivable days, and payable days. The presenter explains how inventory turnover is calculated and visualized,...